Essays on Electronic Cigarette

The trend of electronic cigarette usage among adolescent has increased in the recent era that contains nicotine and other tobacco products. The health care providers and pediatric nurses should be aware of the popularity and safety concern of the cigarette. They deliver the sufficient information to the patient and their family about the possible negative health effects of electronic cigarette.

Education about electronic cigarette

There are limited researches about negative health effects of e-cigarettes in the adolescent. From the evidences, it is found that the registered nurses have provided insufficient education about risks and undesirable effects of the cigarette. They have less education ...

Summaries

Goel, Reema et al. 2015. Highly Reactive Free Radicals in Electronic Cigarette Aerosols. Chemical Research in Toxicology 28:9 (1675-1677). In this reported scientific study, a group of researchers from the Pennsylvania State University investigated whether the aerosol produced by an e-cigarette contains reactive, short-lived free radicals. Initially, the researchers proposed that the e-cigarette vapor may contain high concentrations of free radicals, presumably from the presence of high concentrations of free radicals from conventional cigarette smoke. It must be pointed out that reactive, short-lived free radicals, such as reactive oxygen species and reactive nitrogen species, are potentially toxic to organisms, ...

Smoking electronic cigarettes (or e-cigarettes), colloquially known as vaping, has become a rapid global trend. In fact, about a fifth of Americans aged 25 to 44 are using e-cigarettes (Hwang et al. 667). E-cigarettes are battery-powered devices that use a solution of nicotine, flavorings, and humectants, to produce an aerosol, which will be inhaled by the user. The popularity of smoking e-cigarettes may be due to various motivations, but the most practical reasons are to help the user quit traditional cigarette smoking and to allow the user to use nicotine within non-smoking areas (Kalkhoran & Glantz 1). However, the popularity ...

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Introduction

Though smoking has only negative effects, especially when it can cause different cancers in the body, nevertheless, the mass media try to make smoking look acceptable and cool, which helps tobacco firms enlarge their revenues (Services, Health and First).

In recent years, separated from traditional cigarette smoking, which comparatively went down, we can observe a significant increase in using electronic cigarettes. The amount of students who are studying in high school or even middle school, continue smoking e-cigarettes and what is terrible to state that the number of such occasions doubled from 2012 and kept increasing (Gonchar). ...

For many people who smoke electronic cigarettes, the main purpose is to combat nicotine addiction – this way people are trying to quit smoking modern tobacco products. Exploring the topic how effective the electronic cigarette is in combat against tobacco smoking, I pursue the only goal to prove that today the electronic cigarette is the life-saving panacea, which does not require the rejection of the smoking ritual but at the same time it does not cause the dangerous harm to the body of a smoker. Many people mistakenly believe that electronic cigarettes are dangerous to health – this statement is not ...

Strengths

Allows an arguably healthier alternative to smoking

Costs less than a regular cartridge

Similar experience to smoking cigarettes

Can be marketed as a quitting aid

Can be reused again and again

Every smoker is potentially a customer

Lasts longer for the customer

Weaknesses

Does not last as long as a regular cartridge

May decrease in effectiveness over time

Relatively low market presence compared to regular cigarettes and other quitting aids

Does not carry the same visceral and cultural impact of having a real cigarette

Effort of recharging cartridge may scare customers off, as they may deem it simpler to just buy one time cartridges

Opportunities

Marketing ...